Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Feb 8, 2010 | 4 commentsIn order to make sure that your website is always available to the public, you have to monitor it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can easily create a monitoring script that will check your website availability and send an email or sms alert to you if it isn’t.
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Feb 1, 2010 | 82 commentsLike many other web developers, I definitely hate Internet Explorer, especially the version 6. At a time where new and powerful techniques as such as HTML5 and CSS3 are emerging, it’s not surprising that IE can’t handle them correctly. Luckily, a few tricks can make your life easier.
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Jan 26, 2010 | 23 commentsAre Theme Frameworks the future of WordPress Themes? In this article, I’m going to show you how to easily create a child theme for the popular Thematic WordPress Theme framework.
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Jan 15, 2010 | 42 commentsI may not like how Google is building a monopoly on the internet, but, I have to admit that most of their services are useful. As developers, it is useful to know that Google hosts a lot of open source projects. Today, let’s have a look at the 10 most awesome projects hosted on Google code.
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Jan 2, 2010 | 50 commentsOften in blogging, you hear: “Content is king”. This is true, but this isn’t the only factor of a quality blog. Design is one of those other factors, and so is loading time. In this article, let’s have a look at how you can easily speed up your blog.
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Dec 28, 2009 | 60 commentsThe dashboard is a very important part of a WordPress blog. In fact, it allows you to control your posts, your blog design, and many more things. When building a site for a client, it is especially important to be able to control WP’s dashboard. In this article, let’s have a look at 10 extremely useful hacks for WordPress’ dashboard.
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Dec 22, 2009 | 61 comments2009 has been a very prolific year for WordPress hacks. In this article, I’ll show you the most useful hacks I came across during the whole year. Enjoy!
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Dec 14, 2009 | 49 commentsjQuery is by far my favorite Javascript framework, which allows developers to create stunning visual effects, manipulate data properly, and much more. In this article, I have compiled 10 extremely useful jQuery snippets.
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Dec 5, 2009 | 27 commentsThe CSS text-shadow property is very popular among web designers and front-end developers. In this article, let’s take a look at 10 resources to get the most out of the text-shadow CSS property.
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Nov 30, 2009 | 47 commentsUsability is a very important part of website building. Sadly, this is often neglected by designers and developers. In this article, you’ll find 10 great techniques that you should definitely implement into your website.